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iOS 16 Available September 12th

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Re: iOS 16 Available September 12th

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Post by tomcam »

Waterluvian wrote: post #193

Is anyone else anxious about updates? I used to be so pumped for them when I was a teen. They’d unlock a world of new opportunities. Now I just feel anxious that there’s change for change sake to justify the resourcing of the design teams and that they’ll make things I’m used to worse all for a bunch of features I’ll never use or want. I don’t want more features. There’s so many already and they’re really cluttering.…

> …it’s me isn’t it? This sounds like old man yells at cloud speak.

Not just you. I don't feel like the features they keep adding are very well conceived, and they just seem to ignore earlier features that need refining.

Re: iOS 16 Available September 12th

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Post by Terretta »

jws wrote: post #26
desro wrote: post #6

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With iCloud Plus you're able to add custom email domains (really nice and tight integration with Cloudflare DNS for all the MX records) -- was a breeze to set up. Haven't put it through it's paces yet, though.

Weirdly, you can only have three email addresses per domain. So you can't really use it for a typical family domain, even though it supports the family group (which can be six people).

Everyone gets 3 each.

More importantly you can create unlimited throwaway vendor / site reg emails you can receive to and send from with Hide My Email.

Re: iOS 16 Available September 12th

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Post by JustSomeNobody »

the_mar wrote: post #110
avtar wrote: post #10

Apple’s call and sms spam filtering remains subpar to say the least. When I had a Pixel, I had the option to let the OS transcribe what the potential spammer was saying and end the call. It’s puzzling why Apple isn’t doing more here.

Boy do i have a lifehack for you. Buy a phone number with a random area code, like ohio or something, all the spam calls come from surrounding area codes.

Yep. I have had my number for, forever and I'm now in a different area code. Pretty much everything that comes in from that original area code is spam.

Re: iOS 16 Available September 12th

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Post by JustSomeNobody »

MR4D wrote: post #42
avtar wrote: post #10

Apple’s call and sms spam filtering remains subpar to say the least. When I had a Pixel, I had the option to let the OS transcribe what the potential spammer was saying and end the call. It’s puzzling why Apple isn’t doing more here.

Select "Silence unknown callers" and you're done. Last month I had a flurry of spam texts and calls. I moved the slider to the "enable" side a few weeks ago and have had zero issues since.

Be sure to turn it back off when you're waiting for a call to come in from the plumber, A/C tech, etc.

Re: iOS 16 Available September 12th

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Post by alwillis »

avtar wrote: post #10

Apple’s call and sms spam filtering remains subpar to say the least. When I had a Pixel, I had the option to let the OS transcribe what the potential spammer was saying and end the call. It’s puzzling why Apple isn’t doing more here.

I just use the free version of Truecaller: https://apps.apple.com/app/id448142450

Re: iOS 16 Available September 12th

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Post by Dylan16807 »

Jtsummers wrote: post #199
theshrike79 wrote: post #170

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It's a Google-backed project, so I'd wager the probability around "Google will add iMessage and AirTag support to Android" -levels =)

It's not really Google-backed, more Google-embraced. Google didn't even add support on their own carrier (Google Fi) until 2019.

Partial support. The full version of "messages for web" and RCS are still mutually exclusive.

Re: iOS 16 Available September 12th

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Post by alwillis »

avtar wrote: post #10

Apple’s call and sms spam filtering remains subpar to say the least. When I had a Pixel, I had the option to let the OS transcribe what the potential spammer was saying and end the call. It’s puzzling why Apple isn’t doing more here.

Also using Focus mode to whitelist who can call me when has reduced my spam calls.

Re: iOS 16 Available September 12th

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Post by jdeibele »

Terretta wrote: post #273
Gigachad wrote: post #178

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There will never be multi user support on the iPad until the iPad has some real competition. Apple has absolutely no incentive to invest resources in to multi user when it’s much more likely that you will buy two iPads than buy an android tablet.

They invested the resources to make it already exist: https://developer.apple.com/education/shared-ipad/

Yes, but that doesn't work for having one iPad shared by family. That's about writing software to be used for shared iPads.

iPads can be shared in a business or school setting and going through the administrative steps to implement that. https://support.apple.com/guide/deployment/shared-ipad-overv... talks about how to do it using a Mobile Device Management (MDM) server. There are various services not from Apple that provide free servers but we've seen over and over how a free service goes paid or is simply cancelled.

There's nothing on the iPad like Macs have for allowing multiple users.

Re: iOS 16 Available September 12th

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Post by Jcowell »

easton wrote: post #285
taejavu wrote: post #276

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Why don't you like the address bar at the bottom? Surely it's more convenient to reach for. Is it muscle memory, or more just a dislike of change?

Muscle memory, and on smaller phones it was never a problem. I can reach the address bar on a 13 mini one handed, and it’s been so long that it’s more annoying to relearn it. It’s best to make it an option.

But it is an option.

Re: iOS 16 Available September 12th

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Post by WrtCdEvrydy »

KennyBlanken wrote: post #129
WrtCdEvrydy wrote: post #108

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Actually, you can download the newer version of an app on a newer iphone and then download a version that works on the old iphone from the Purchased page. Apple makes it difficult but keeping my iPhone 5S is still going years after iOS 12 is no longer "cool"

Why would you be keeping an 5S "still going" when you can buy an 8, SE, or an X/Xs/Xr, for a song and get vastly better performance, battery life, wifi and cellular? The A7 is dogshit slow - I have an iPad with the A7 (or maybe it's the A9) and it's unusably slow for even simple things like apps from newspapers and library e-reader apps; you can watch the page assemble. Even waking the iPad with the home button is sl…

What makes you think I don't own an iPhone XR? I have a lot of phones that I use for random projects and testing and sometimes I just need something I can strap to the side of a car with a suction cup to capture gyro data. If it falls off, it falls off.

By the way, I wasn't the one telling me "this is the greatest iPhone yet" at the yearly capitalism conference.

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